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Auburn Gresham, Chicago's Fifth $1 Large Lot Purchase Program Ends Up Number One!

If you own land in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, for the past few months you had a chance to buy up two vacant lots, from the City of Chicago for $1 a lot and proof of ownership on the block. Huge kudos to the Auburn Gresham residents, a community that showed up and almost bought out!

The $1.00 Large Lots Project officially concluded in the Auburn Gresham community, May 15th, after a few extensions to the original 30 day window. And this truly proved to be a much needed addition. We worked assertively to canvass and educate the community on this phenomenal opportunity. The motto, "Connect to your dreams," was really encouraged to motivate property owners to extend their dream of land 0nwnership. The dream goal of the Auburn Gresham community was to buy all the lots!

There were 93 application received for 60 eligible lots. We broke the record of having 65% of lots that were applied for throughout other communities in Chicago.

NIcole Wheatly, Large $1 Lot program manager says, "I received another call from LISC Chicago today congratulating us on our success. They also confirmed the final data, which supported Auburn Gresham having the highest percentage of Lots sold, in this fifth Large Lots program deployment. One lesson learned by the City of Chicago, is to potentially deploy only one community at a time, in future $1 Large Lot intiatives.

Ms. Wheatly sent a heartfelt thank you to the Greater Auburn Gresham Development staff and community members that assisted making the program a huge success. "Thank you all for taking calls, volunteering your time, assisting people with application input and much more. It takes a team to pull off this type of success and it would not have been possible without you all!"

SPECIAL THANKS TO JAH RANU MENANB, NORMA SANDERS, TEHUTI DISHMAN for the multitude of days servicing people.

We will begin planning a day to get all of the 60 people that purchased a lot in the same room to help them understand options of developing their lot.

Here’s a list of the lots that received an application:

1057 W 79TH ST

1059 W 79TH ST (2)

1137 W 78TH ST

2157 W 78TH ST

648 W 86TH ST (2)

720 W 81ST ST

7503 S DAMEN AVE (2)

7507 S MAY ST (2)

7615 SOUTH LOWE AVE.

7638 SOUTH KING DRIVE

7640 S LOWE AVE (3)

7641 S UNION AVE

7643 S EMERALD AVE (4)

7701 S MORGAN ST (2)

7716 S SANGAMON ST

7717 S HONORE ST

7721 S. UNION AV.

7749 S ADA ST

7752 S GREEN ST

7835 S LOWE AVE

7839 S LOWE AVE

7840 S THROOP ST

7914 S UNION AVE

7914 S WOOD ST

7925 S ADA ST

7925 S EMERALD AVE (3)

8013 S UNION AVE

8042 S CARPENTER ST

8044 S EMERALD ST (3)

8208 S EMERALD AVE

8233 SO. EMERALD AVE. CHICAGO, IL 60620

8235 S EMERALD AVE

8317 S PAULINA ST

8347 S MORGAN ST

8350 S KERFOOT AVE (2)

8352 S KERFOOT AVE (2)

8378 S KERFOOT AVE (2)

8413 S GILBERT CT (2)

8433 S PEORIA

8500 SOUTH GIVINS COURT (3)

8506 S CARPENTER ST

8516 S GIVINS CT (2)

8519 S GIVINS CT

8529 SOUTH GIVINS COURT (3)

8532 S SANGAMON ST (2)

8635 S MORGAN ST

8715 S RACINE AVE

8725 S MARSHFIELD AVE (2)

8736 S NORMAL AVE (2)

8739 S MORGAN ST

8748 SOUTH EMERALD (2)

8751 S GENOA AVE

8815 SOUTH EMERALD AVE

8830 S. MORGAN (2)

8838 S EMERALD AVE (2)

8842 S PAULINA ST

8856 S LOOMIS

8858 S LOOMIS ST

8922 S HALSTED ST (2)

938 WEST 87TH STREET (3)

Congratulations to all the residents to who committed to take pride in their block and help make Auburn Gresham great!